Geoffrey James. Utopia/Dystopia

Discover the landscape photographs of Canadian photographer Geoffrey James. Utopia/Dystopia is a major retrospective covering more than three decades of the photographer’s work.

The exhibition presents some one hundred works emphasizing the various ways in which the artist approaches his subject and focusing in particular on the multifaceted preoccupations that can be discerned in his work. Seeking to analyse Western culture through the relationship between nature and culture, James’s photographs cover a terrain that goes from Paris to Tijuana by way of Thetford Mines. Photographing both enchanting gardens and the deserts created by mining, his images are a true ode to the landscape.

Geoffrey James was born in Wales. He took up photography in the early 70’s. Today he is considered one of the most eloquent interpreters of the landscape in Canada. Winner of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award given by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Roloff Beny Foundation Award and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation Prize, his work is in many prestigious and public and private collections in Europe and North America.

Utopia/Dystopia. The Photographs of Geoffrey James has been made possible in part through a grant from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage. A richly illustrated catalogue, published in English and French, accompanies the exhibition.

Geoffrey James
Utopia/Dystopia
Kurator : Lori Pauli